“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.”
― Darconville's Cat
― Darconville's Cat
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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